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Thursday, May 31, 2007

NASA Fears for Space Fire Hazard

HOUSTON - An observant space worker assisted NASA in avoiding what might have been a serious fire hazard aboard the international space station, space agency officials stated.

In a private interview late last week, space station manager Michael Suffredini explained how a volatile fire may have been broken out in an oxygen line, potentially injuring spacewalking astronauts. "It could have been an extremely bad day," he said. "It would have been ugly."

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Friday, May 25, 2007

China joins 'Space and Major Disasters' contract

China National Space Administration (CNSA) administrator Sun Laiyan signed the contract last week at ESA headquarters in Paris.

Welcoming China to the group, ESA director general Jean-Jacques Dordain stated "The International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters' has shown to be an extremely successful mechanism for international cooperation among partners for contributing Earth observation data."

The contract has been triggered more than 125 times, most lately in response to this month's floods in Uruguay.

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Friday, May 18, 2007

NASA to Conduct Space Shuttle

NASA would carry out a two-minute, static firing of a space shuttle flight support motor at a Utah check facility. The motor firing would offer the Space Shuttle Program with recital data on asbestos-free candidate lagging replacement materials to meet future ecological constraints. The test also would offer test data for the Ares I crew launch vehicle and NASA's future examination goals to return humans to the moon.

Flight support motors are tested by the Space Shuttle Reusable Solid Rocket Booster Project Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

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Sunday, May 13, 2007

History on space

Norfolk, Va. A cargo tag, which voyage 3,000 miles from England to America' prime enduring English settlement almost four centuries ago is about to take a much longer journey: into space. The tag would fly aboard space shuttle Atlantis, planned for launch March 15, NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton announced Wednesday.

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Thursday, May 10, 2007

China approves five-year space growth plan

CHINA'S State Council, or the cabinet, in code, accepted the country's 11th five-year plan on space growth at a conference today.

Addressing the conference, Chinese vice Premier Zeng Peiyan pointed that the 11th five-year period (2006-2010) is input to China's space development, Xinhua News Agency reported.

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